Re: [cobalt-users] Weekly Cron Error zcat

["Dan" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There's a script that runs weekly which contains "zcat" and something
> piped from it which isn't working. Look in cron.weekly and see what's
> being called, then run through the body of the script(s) until you find
> the offender, then post it here and we'll see if we can help you
> Regards,
> -Colin
> --
> Colin J. Raven
> Linux Registered User #82296
> Mon Mar 12 06:49:00 EST 2001
>   6:49am  up 12 days, 11:21,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
>
> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, digiteknowlogy support wrote:
>
> > I'm having the exact same problem .. I've posted questions about it
several
> > times .. and no one seems to know =/
> >
> > Michael
> >

I also have this problem In cron.weekly there is one script called
makewhatis.cron which contains the following:

#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/makewhatis.lock

# the lockfile is not meant to be perfect, it's just in case the
# two makewhatis cron scripts get run close to each other to keep
# them from stepping on each other's toes.  The worst that will
# happen is that they will temporarily corrupt the database...
[ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0
trap "rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT
touch $LOCKFILE
makewhatis -w
exit 0

when I check /var/lock there is nothing of that desription.


Dan